I Believe...You Should Be Married to Your Best Friend

Last year, Geno told me he wanted to be my best friend. Until then, I never realized that Geno has never had a best friend. There is no one from high school that he had kept in contact with until he found a few on facebook, and he told me that there is not one person from that time period who he ever considered to be his best friend. He has a few friends from his Air Force time, but not a best friend. He pointed out to me-if you have never HAD a best friend, then you don't really know how to BE a best friend, right?

When Geno and I married, the 4 boys were 3, 5, 8 and 10 years old, so we have always been so busy. In the beginning, we spent a lot of time together as a family and as a couple. But then the boys got older and they each started playing sports. Sometimes we would have to tag-team parent to get them to their games and practices! I went back to college full-time. I got a full-time job. We tried to have children. Life just kept happening and we forgot to slow down again and focus on us. We never stopped loving one another. We just stopped making each other a priority.

I am so grateful that over the past year Geno and I have become best friends. We not only made each other a priority, but we went beyond and really got to know each other! We talked about what a best friend is and what we each wanted in a best friend from the other one. What a man needs from a best friend is not the same as what a woman needs from a best friend, but what we each wanted was to be the one the other turns to FIRST in any situation. And we can do that. We have been doing that for the last year. And we will do that for the rest of our lives.

I am so grateful Geno is my best friend.

(Thanks for the advice, Missie!)